Grandpa's Stories, by L Hughes

This is a short film that would be great as a writing prompt or discussion piece to go along with the poem "Grandpa's Stories" by Langston Hughes. After a long time, a young 23-year-old student, living and studying in the city, comes to visit his gr...andfather. Once he arrives to his grandfather's house and starts performing everyday chores, mysterious things happen – oranges appear out of nowhere. Eventually, the young man realizes that it must be some kind of a riddle. Will he find the answer in his childhood years? (11:07)[more]

This is actual footage of a grandfather! This is a home movie of someone's wedding in Portland in the 1930's-40's. This would be good to show kids what things looked like at that time period (cars, style of dress, houses, hair, etc.) as well as how... this short film tells a part of their life. You could also talk about the differences in the actual film versus our digital film today. This would make a great compliment to the poem "Grandpa's Stories".
NOTE: I would mention that more people smoked back then because they didn't know how bad it was for their health at that time (there are people smoking in the video).[more]

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